Mar 24 Getty, Italian Museum Announce Collaboration By Arts Desk The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced Monday a new collaboration with the Archaeology Museum in Florence, Italy to bring artifacts from the Italian museum to museum-goers in California. Continue reading
Mar 20 It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s ‘The 99’ By Arts Desk It looks like an ordinary American comic book; heroes wear brightly colored costumes and use their bulging muscles to conquer the forces of evil. But look again -- one of the superheroes is wearing a burka. Continue reading
Mar 17 Conversation: NPR’s Bob Boilen on SXSW By Arts Desk In March, basketball fans have their "madness"...music fans have South by Southwest. The annual festival brings more than 1,800 musicians from around the globe to Austin, Texas, which even in normal times bills itself as the "live music capitol of… Continue reading
Mar 17 SXSW Shifts Gears to Music Festival By Arts Desk The gears are shifting in Austin, Texas, as the South by Southwest Interactive Festival wraps up and the live music capital of the world prepares for the start of the music festival on Wednesday. Continue reading
Mar 13 Conversation: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein By Arts Desk Two years ago, pianist Simone Dinnerstein seized the attention of the classical music world with a debut concert at Carnegie Hall and a self-produced recording that became a bestseller and made many critics' top lists that year. Continue reading
Mar 13 National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced Thursday night in New York. The fiction prize went to Roberto Bolano for "2666," and the general nonfiction award went to Dexter Filkins for "The Forever War."… Continue reading
Mar 09 More Than a Weekly Poem: A Conversation and Reading With Poet Laureate Kay Ryan By Arts Desk Known for short, compact writing and for living a very quiet life, Kay Ryan has taken on a big and very public role as the nation's Poet Laureate. For more than thirty years, Ryan has lived and taught remedial English… Continue reading
Mar 09 Blurring the Boundaries of Jazz, Arabic Music By Arts Desk In another in our series about the Kennedy Center's Arabesque art festival, Jeffrey Brown profiles Egyptian musician Fathy Salama, who began playing the piano at age 6 and performing at Cairo clubs at 13. Continue reading
Mar 06 Tonight on the NewsHour: Fathy Salama By Arts Desk Jeffrey Brown profiles Fathy Salama in our series about the Kennedy Center's Arabesque art festival. Salama began playing the piano at age 6 and performing at Cairo clubs at 13. Continue reading
Mar 06 Conversation With Author Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket By Arts Desk Through a series of unfortunate events, apparently, Daniel Handler did not grow up to be a musician. Instead, he -- or rather, one Lemony Snicket -- grew up to write the wildly popular series, "A Series of Unfortunate Events."… Continue reading